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question of supporting the finances of the Protectorate by their own 

 contributions towards its general revenue. 



jNlr. Jackson (now Deputy Commissioner for East Africa) became 

 Deputy Commissioner in Uganda, and did much to settle the affairs of 

 that kingdom. Mr. George Wilson rendered the like services in Unyoro. 



Arrangements were then made to divide the Protectorate definitely 

 into provinces (six), and these again into districts. It was laid down as 

 a general rule that a province should ordinarily be under the direction of 

 a sub-commissioner, while the collectors and assistant collectors should be 

 placed in special charge of districts or places. Pecognised native chiefs 

 are supposed to deal out justice (reserving matters of life and death) to 

 their own subjects. The sub-commissioner, collectors, and assistant collectors 

 hold generally magistrates' warrants and administer justice to Europeans 

 and all persons not native to the Protectorate, in addition to their work 

 of collecting the revenues and generally presiding over the maintenance 

 of law and order in their respective districts. 



With the aid of Colonel A. H. Coles, D.S.O., and Lieutenant-Colonel 

 J. Evatt, D.S.O., the reorganisation of the armed forces had proceeded 

 apace. In this connection the problem was how to jtrovide at a fairly 

 cheap rate a sufficiently large body of men to keep order in the settled 

 and administered districts of the Protectorate. After the Sudanese mutiny 

 the Foreign Office had raised for a time the pay of the Sudanese troops to 

 a maximum of twenty rupees a month. This was subsequently reduced 

 to eighteen rupees, as that was the maximum given to the trained Indian 

 troops who volunteered from the Indian Army for service in Uganda. But 

 it seemed to the present writer that even eighteen rupees a month was 

 too much to pay Negro soldiers whose training, discipline, marksmanship, 

 and valour were not at the same high level as those of our Indian soldiers. 

 He proposed, therefore, that the maximum pay of Negro soldiers in the 

 Uganda Kifles should gradually be reduced to sixteen rupees a month. 

 Even at this rate, however, the upkeep of a force sufficiently numerous 

 to meet all the requirements of the Protectorate would be too expensive. 

 It therefore occurred to the Special Commissioner that the ordinary 

 maintenance of order might be \ery well carried on by a constabulary, 

 and that the trained troops, consisting of the Indian soldiers, the Sudanese, 

 Baganda, Somalis, and otlier negro soldiers of worth, might be reserved 

 for actual warfare, for expeditions against powerful tribes, or the suppression 

 of serious risings. Consequently, the number of soldiers serving in the 

 Uganda Rifles was diminished, and a constabulary, working under British 

 police officers (non-commissioned officers from the British Army), was 

 raised to a force of about 1,500 men. Including the Indian troops, 

 therefore, the Uganda Protectorate has on paper, and probably in actuality 



